Saint, where i have worked for the last 3+ years have won Agency of the Year in the Revolution Awards 2011.
Feeling proud to have been part of it!
Friday, 15 April 2011
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Mother's Day 2011
Nadine's first Mother's Day.
We had flowers, a card and present,
special breakfast (chocolate fingers), champagne,
a walk the park,
and a big Sunday Roast.
A lovely day.
With lots of love.
Thank you for being a great mum.
A lovely day.
With lots of love.
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Lilies
Working at learning how to use my new Macro lens.
Some wonderful lilies for Nadine proved a great subject.
Play full-screen and let me know your thoughts...
Some wonderful lilies for Nadine proved a great subject.
Play full-screen and let me know your thoughts...
Friday, 1 April 2011
Digital Symphony
Thanks to Mark Sng for turning me on to Tristan Perich and his 1-Bit Symphony.
Perich has composed a symphony, and I have a copy of it.
Number 2769.
It is in a cd case, but it isn't a recording.
Rather, this is a rather beautiful (in a tech-geek way) physical object, comprising wires, switches, a battery and a chip, that plays the music live for you when you turn it on.
One of the consequences of this which I rather like is that unlike a normal cd, you cannot make a digital rip. If you were to want a copy of the sound, you would need to record it in real-time, in an analogue fashion if you like, even if you use digital equipment.
Of course to make a copy of the sound would be to miss the point. This is a unique hand soldered artifact, and joy is to be had handling it, appreciating the near liquid quality of solder, reading the code supplied in the packaging, plugging into the headphone jack, and letting the sound unfold.
The sound is hard.
1-Bit doesn't have much space for tonal depth. It won't be to everyone's (many people's...) taste, and I might not listen to it that often, but the object-ness of the whole work will ensure it doesn't get tucked in storage as a physical back-up to mp3s, like so much of my music now.
Listen to a clip, then order your own copy from here.
Perich has composed a symphony, and I have a copy of it.
Number 2769.
It is in a cd case, but it isn't a recording.
Rather, this is a rather beautiful (in a tech-geek way) physical object, comprising wires, switches, a battery and a chip, that plays the music live for you when you turn it on.
One of the consequences of this which I rather like is that unlike a normal cd, you cannot make a digital rip. If you were to want a copy of the sound, you would need to record it in real-time, in an analogue fashion if you like, even if you use digital equipment.
Of course to make a copy of the sound would be to miss the point. This is a unique hand soldered artifact, and joy is to be had handling it, appreciating the near liquid quality of solder, reading the code supplied in the packaging, plugging into the headphone jack, and letting the sound unfold.
The sound is hard.
1-Bit doesn't have much space for tonal depth. It won't be to everyone's (many people's...) taste, and I might not listen to it that often, but the object-ness of the whole work will ensure it doesn't get tucked in storage as a physical back-up to mp3s, like so much of my music now.
Listen to a clip, then order your own copy from here.
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